Customer Ratings & Reviews

I have had the best luck with WD drives. They seem to have less failures than other brands. This is the 4th of these that I have and works perfect for primary or back up drive.

WD internal and external drives have always been very reliable for me. I have two WD My Book external drives that are used for image backups from several Windows PC's. One is attached to a WD My Cloud drive on the network, the other is disconnected. By alternating the two drives periodically, there are always backups that are safely off the network in case of a ransomware attack. Kind of like an insurance policy you hope to never need to use.

Great quality, reliable, easy to use. Great for storing lots of data like large music library.

The WD - My Book 8TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive is great! Tons of storage for videos, pictures, etc. Reliable , easy to install (plug and play).

I have yet to even fill one sixth of this hard drive and I backed my entire computer to it. Love it. A bit noisy but other then that can’t complain. Would buy again great price

I need to house some file (pre-server) and 8TB was the best I could find off the shelf. The only down side is that if I wish the edit video from them they are not the fastest and can also be a little loud when hung up

Easy to shuck if you search for online guides and can buy enterprise quality drive at significant savings vs buying NAS ready drives of the same size.

I needed an external HD that would hold a lot of data. This is perfect for my back ups. I won't fill this anytime soon. Easy to use software.

This is my preferred external drive for all my (Mac) computers. I have a few streaming servers and the 8TB is sufficiently large enough to hold hundreds of videos and thousands of songs. It will transfer data fast enough to support the streaming servers and is easy to install (just power and USB connection) and is very quiet. It also doesn't have a power switch or on light - if it's connected to the computer and the computer is on the drive will be operational - it will come back on automatically after a power outage without having to flip a switch.

This drive is good for storing most all of my files.

This is a good bit of storage for the price. Not the fastest drive, but great bang for the buck. I find WD drives last a good while too. Several years on avg.

Great hard drive for the price! Haven’t had any problems whatsoever! I bought 2 and both are chugging right along.

Huge Storage for a small price! I've been buying the 3 and 4 TB backups for a while. When this one went on sale for $199, I couldn't pass it up! USB 3.0, fast, quiet and LOTS of room for picture/video storage!

OK, so Ive already transferred 62Tbs of Data from this little 8Tb external HDD and I have No complains. While hoked up via USB 3.0 I average about 175mbs transfer speed and Ive literally used this to collect the .mkv files from ripping my home Blu-Rays onto my home server. Its been handling so much data transfer and running at an average of 16-18 ours a day for 2 weeks straight to achieve this.. I’m impressed and its the biggest bang for the buck at 8tbs external HHD standalone period!

I've had issues with large drives failing in the past. This one is performing great and I'm secure in knowing that my content is backed up and I can get to it when needed.

External hard drive was received quickly after placing my order. I like the size of the drive and the speed of USB 3.0

Set up was a snap. It was plug and play with Windows 7. I deleted the software that came on the drive. I use SyncToy (from Micro$oft) to backup my data

Love these. I have multiple and theyall work great. Works great and makes for a great way to do back ups or just take some weight off of an internal hd.

Great external hard drive at a great price. They matched the competition on price also. Easy to setup, I had to re-partition and format the drive for my Linux desktop (Fedora 27 KDE).

I bought this for use with my Xbox One. Setup was easy and was loading uploading games in just a few minutes. I love the amount of available storage.